temporary beauty Quotes

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, 'I love spray-tanning so much.' I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

While I'm totally up for all things girly, two months of mehendi is a fairly long time!

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.